# carro
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan carro, from Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”). Compare Occitan carri, carro, car.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈka.ru]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈka.ro]
* Audio (Valencia):(file)

### Noun

carro m (plural carros)
* cart

#### Derived terms

* carret
* carreta
* carro de golf
* carrutxa

#### Related terms

* carreter
* carretera
* carrossa

### References

* “carro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

### Further reading

* “carro” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “carro”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “carro” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

## Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl
### Etymology

From Spanish carro.

### Noun

carro (plural carros)
* car.
* chariot.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese carro, from Latin carrus (“cart”), from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkaro/ [ˈkɑ.rʊ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aro

### Noun

carro m (plural carros)
* cart
* wagon
* car
* cartload, wagonload
* a load (unit of weight)
* Big Dipper, Ursa Major
    Synonym: Carro

#### Derived terms

* Carral
* Carrás
* carreira
* carreiro
* carreta
* carretar
* carreto
* Carril
* carril
* Carriño
* Carrís
* Carro

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “carro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “carro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “carro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), derived from the root *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of curro.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkar.ro/
* Rhymes: -arro
* Hyphenation: càr‧ro

### Noun

carro m (plural carri)
* a means of transport used to carry goods; a wagon, cart, van, lorry or truck

#### Derived terms

* carro armato
* carro attrezzi
* carro bestiame
* carro funebre
* carro merci

#### Related terms

* carrabile
* carraia
* carraio
* carreggiare
* carreggiata
* carrello
* carretto
* carriera
* carriola
* carrozza
* carrozzone

### Anagrams

* corra

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *karzō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kers- (“to comb wool”), extended from *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Compare Lithuanian kar̃šti (“combs, cards”), Latvian kā̀rst (“combs, cards”), Old High German scerran (“to scratch”). Varro falsely connects this with careō, possibly because the word had already gone extinct in his time, with the only reminiscence being carmen (“card for flax or wool”) which was the evident derivational base of the rather common carminō (“I card”).

#### Alternative forms

* carō, carriō

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkar.roː/, [ˈkärːoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkar.ro/, [ˈkärːo]

#### Verb

carrō (present infinitive carrere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine stems
* (rare) to card (wool)
** c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Menaechmi 797:inter ancillās sedēre jubeās, lānam ca<r>rere.

##### Derived terms

* carmen

##### References

* “carr(i)o” in volume 3, column 497, line 64 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
* De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “carrō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 95

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

carrō
* dative/ablative singular of carrus

## Mirandese
### Noun

carro m (plural carros)
* automobile, car

#### Synonyms

* altemoble

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Old Occitan (compare Occitan carri, car), from Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”).
Related to Catalan carro.

### Noun

carro m (plural carros)
* cart

## Old Catalan
### Alternative forms

* carre

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin carrus, borrowed from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- + *-ós.

### Noun

carro m
* cart

#### Derived terms

* carreta

#### Descendants

* Catalan: carro

### References

* Coromines, Joan (1980–1991) “carro”, in Diccionari etimològic i complementari de la llengua catalana, Barcelona: Curial Edicions Catalanes.

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin carrus, borrowed from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- + *-ós.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkaro/
* Rhymes: -aro

### Noun

carro m (plural carros)
* cart
* (by extension) cartload

#### Related terms

* carregar
* carreira
* carreiro
* carrejador
* carrejar
* carreta
* carretar
* carreteiro
* carril

#### Descendants

* Fala: carru
* Galician: carro
* Portuguese: carro

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “carro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “carro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Old Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin carrus, borrowed from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- + *-ós.

### Noun

carro m (plural carros)
* cart

#### Descendants

* Spanish: carro
** → Cebuano: karo
** → Tagalog: karo

### References

* Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “carro”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume I, Chapel Hill, page 101

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese carro (“cart”), from Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈka.ʁu/ [ˈka.hu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈka.ʁu/ [ˈka.hu]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈka.ʁu/ [ˈka.χu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈka.ʁo/ [ˈka.ho]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈka.ʁu/
* (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈka.ru/
* Rhymes: -aʁu
* Hyphenation: car‧ro
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

carro m (plural carros)
* cart (vehicle drawn or pushed by a person or animal)
    Synonyms: carroça, carreta
* car; automobile
    Synonyms: auto, automóvel, veículo
* any “vehicle” which is drawn, such as an elevator, a cable car, or a train wagon

#### Derived terms

* carreiro
* carreta
* carrinho
* carro desportivo
* carro-esporte

#### Related terms

* carga
* cargo
* cargueiro
* carreador
* carreadouro
* carregação
* carregadeira
* carregar
* carrego
* carreira
* carretagem
* carreteiro
* carreto
* carril
* carriola
* carroça
* carroçada
* carroçaria
* carroçável
* carroceiro
* carrossel
* carruagem

#### Descendants

* → Kimbundu: dikalu

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish carro, from Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkaro/ [ˈka.ro]
* Audio (Peru):(file)
* Rhymes: -aro
* Syllabification: ca‧rro

### Noun

carro m (plural carros)
* cart
* (Latin America) car, automobile (used especially in Central America, the Caribbean, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Mexico)
    Synonyms: auto, automóvil, coche, (Spain, colloquial) buga
* (Peru, Ecuador, by extension) a bus or minivan used on public transportation to carry passengers from one part of a city to another (while it has the same meaning as 'auto', 'carro' is preferred when referring to public transportation automobiles)
    Synonym: (Argentina) bondi
* (Latin America) train car
* (slang) cocaine paste

#### Hyponyms

* carro fúnebre

#### Derived terms

* acarrear
* anticarro
* carrazo
* carrero
* carreta
* carrete
* carril
* carrillo
* carrito
* carro de asalto
* carro de combate
* carro de oro
* carro de tierra
* carro hidrante
* Carro Mayor
* carros y carretas
* cazacarros
* parar el carro
* poner el carro delante de los bueyes
* poner el carro delante del caballo
* robacarros
* subirse al carro
* tirar del carro
* untar el carro

#### Related terms

* cargar
* carrera
* carretela
* carroza
* carruaje

#### Descendants

* → Cebuano: karo
* → Tagalog: karo

### Further reading

* “carro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### Anagrams

* corra
* croar